The following photos are displayed in the exhibition that runs along the street:
Schlemmer Marlena and Miriam arrive at Ramot Hashavim, 1933
Collection of the Shafir family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Eugenia Stecklemcher in the Mercedes car that immigrated to Israel with the family in 1933. Nuremberg, 1930
Collection of the Lifshitz family (Leichtung)
Click for a larger image Right: John Wolf and David Hertz on the donkey near the house, 1930s
Collection of the Wolf family, Ramot Hashavim
Left: Tirza Raphael and Benjamin on Dr. Ginzburg’s Donkey, 1936
Collection of the Avidris family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Hanan Marcus next to Julius Cohen’s car, 1930s
Collection of the Marcus family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top picture: Razi, Ruth and Moshe Nabel with the donkey, late 1930s
Collection of the Levy family, Bnei Zion
Bottom picture: Hedwig and Eli Rosenov, 1936
The Rosenov family collection, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Walter Cohen drives an El Al truck
The Rosenberg Family Collection, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top photo: Yael Gartner riding a donkey with a cart and children, 1944
Collection of the Yarkoni family, Ramot Hashavim
Bottom photo: Michael Aharonheim and friends, 1944
Collection of the Aharonheim family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top photo: Alice Hamer and grandson David, 1940s
Collection of the Morag family, Ramot Hashavim
Bottom photo: Paulie Ginzburg and Alon Heiman beside Dr. Ginzburg’s car, 1947
Collection of the Avisdris family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Shavuot parade, Miriam and Micha Porat (in the first cart), 1953
Click for a larger image Top photo: The vehicles of the Yarkanim Group, 1947. Photo: Emanuel Kliman
Collection of the Wolf family, Ramot Hashavim
Bottom photo: Marganit and Yosef Kliman on the way to a Tipat Chalav, 1961. Photo: Emanuel Kliman
Collection of the Wolf family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Right: Kaza and Yael Yarkoni on the motorcycle, the second half of the 1950s
Collection of the Yarkoni family, Ramot Hashavim
Left: Uri and Yehudit Eigerman (Agam) and Aliza Natan (Eitan) on the Jeep Willis on Purim
Collection of the Natan family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top photo: Peter Liers’ Vespa 400, 1950s
Collection of the Liers family, Ramot Hashavim
Bottom photo: Reuven and Osnat Steinhardt and the Messerschmitt, 1959
Collection of the Steinhardt family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top photo: Gadi Mozes and Orit Yaron on the Yaron family’s motorcycle, 1950s
The Rosenberg Family Collection, Ramot Hashavim
Bottom picture: Marganit, Osnat, Michal and Tamar Kliman on the family motorcycle, 1940s. Photo: Emanuel Kliman
Collection of the Sheeran family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Right: Hava Zanger on the motorcycle in the early 1950s
Collection of the Zanger family, Ramot Hashavim
Left: Yoram and Danya Landsberger on a bicycle on Sharet Street, which was then sandy, 1954
Collection of the Nativ family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top photo: Joseph and Elsa Obernauer and grandchildren Dina and Amnon Arieli, with the Morris 1000, 1940s
Collection of the Arieli family
Bottom picture: Marganit, Michal, Tami and Dorit Kliman with the Peugeot, 1958
Collection of the Kliman family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top picture: Three generations on the motorcycle - Dedi and Hanan Zanger and Mr. Falk, 1955
Collection of the Zanger family, Ramot Hashavim
Bottom picture: Hannah and Yaron Dagan on the BSE, 1956
Collection of the Eyal family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Right: Zeev Landsberger with his grandson Shachar Nativ on the Vespa, 1972
Collection of the Nativ family, Ramot Hashavim
Left: Heinz Gotschalk on a scooter
Collection of the Vered family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Top photo: Rachel with her father’s Citroen, Dr. Martin Caron. 1950s
Collection of the Halevi family, Ashkelon
Bottom picture: Meirke Geva next to his parents’ Hillman, 1957
Collection of the Geva family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Yoram and Danya Landsberger on a box car, 1948
Collection of the Nativ family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Gabi and Dedi Zanger in the car they received from grandfather Erich Falk
Collection of the Zanger family, Ramot Hashavim
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
How We Traveled Once The exhibition ’How We Traveled Once’ presents a nostalgic look at the mobility of the residents of Ramot Hashavim on the sandy roads and on the village roads. It represents the various means of ’transportation’ used by the villagers in the first thirty years.
Among the founders of Ramot Hashavim were families who owned a car but these were not many. The first car in the village belonged to the Shtkelmacher family, who immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933, and it arrived together with the rest of the property sent from Germany to Eretz Israel. The first truck was purchased in 1934 by the El Al Cooperative for the purpose of transporting the eggs for sale and transporting the fodder for the chickens. Later a few more cars arrived, but these had difficulty moving on unpaved roads until the early 1950s. Donkeys were an accepted alternative in the country in the 1930s, being a convenient, available, relatively inexpensive ‘vehicle’ that never sank in the sand. Many families kept a donkey, some even added a cart that was harnessed to the donkey and with the help of which goods or children could be transported. The addition of the cart was also beneficial for a ’donkey with a cart for rent’. In the 1940s and 1950s, motorcycles also appeared, some with a ’boat’ that could be used to transport the whole family and even luggage. The children also used bicycles.
Tractors were mainly for members of the "YarkanimGroup" - most of the settlers had chicken coops, and no tractor was required to work with them. After the construction of the main roads in the village on the streets of the MeYasdim and Beit Ha’am in the early 1950s, many cars were added to the spectacular collection of residents’ family vehicles, some of which can be seen in the display in front of us.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to cooperation with residents and descendants of the founders, who responded to the archive staff’s request, took the trouble to search the family albums and donated most of the photos displayed in the exhibition.
Curators: Iris Morag (Chief Curator), Tami Yashar, Osnat Sheeran
Design: Shira Warszewski-Fleur
[Photo: Orit Yaron (Rosenberg) in a motorcycle boat, early 1960s.
The Rosenberg Family Collection, Ramot Hashavim
The logo of the Documentation and Heritage Center staff
Symbol of the renewed Ramot Hashavim Association for its residents
Symbol of the Ramot Hashavim Local Committee
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